NYT Crossword Answers 05/02/25

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Across Clues

• 1 Setting for Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” SALEM
• 6 “Well, ___ ?” (segue) THEN
• 10 Grouch CRAB
• 14 Gatsby or Hamlet TRAGICHERO
• 16 Dolly of “Hello, Dolly!” LEVI
• 17 Sides of circles? ONIONRINGS
• 18 Not settled OPEN
• 19 Seal team? POD
• 20 Chloride and oxide, for two IONS
• 21 Fetes HONORS
• 23 Unchecked AMOK
• 24 ___ seeds (ingredients in pickling) CELERY
• 25 “Is that an amazing offer or what?” HOWCANIRESIST
• 29 Titular female Disney character whose name also appears in a Shakespeare play ARIEL
• 30 Titular male Shakespeare character whose name also appears in a Disney film TIMON
• 31 X CHI
• 34 Do something of interest? LEND
• 35 Like straw baskets WOVEN
• 36 Sunfish feature SAIL
• 37 Modern car accessory FOB
• 38 Literary bird with a one-word vocabulary, apparently RAVEN
• 39 Merely watches without saying a word LURKS
• 40 “Yadda, yadda, yadda” YOUGETTHEIDEA
• 43 More inclined to recline LAZIER
• 44 Aerosol output MIST
• 45 Malaysian state or island PENANG
• 46 Doesn’t guzzle SIPS
• 47 Poke bowl delicacy AHI
• 50 Sikorsky or Stravinsky IGOR
• 51 “To nobody’s surprise …” ASEXPECTED
• 54 It’s a piece of work TASK
• 55 Categorize narrowly PIGEONHOLE
• 56 They might be red or blonde ALES
• 57 One of 12 on a euro coin STAR
• 58 Wires, say SENDS

Vertical Clues

• 1 “You’re doing it all wrong!” STOP
• 2 River next to the Uffizi Gallery ARNO
• 3 Put (down) LAID
• 4 Impediment to collaboration EGO
• 5 Barely enough MINIMAL
• 6 “No need to respond right now” THINKITOVER
• 7 Natural incubators HENS
• 8 Bit of energy (and of “energy”) ERG
• 9 Makes a snack of NOSHESON
• 10 Sci-fi remakes? CLONES
• 11 It may have pluses and minuses REPORTCARD
• 12 Lincoln Center’s former ___ Fisher Hall AVERY
• 13 Containers at airport security BINS
• 15 Sing like Perry Como or Mel Tormé CROON
• 22 Swedish actress Lena OLIN
• 23 Crushed, as a test ACED
• 24 Concrete example of rotational forces and fluid dynamics? CEMENTMIXER
• 25 One of two for one HALF
• 26 Brand that once offered an “Uh-Oh!” variety OREO
• 27 Best someone, but just barely WINBYANOSE
• 28 Transfix RIVET
• 32 A walk in the park? HIKE
• 33 The “kid” in “Here’s looking at you, kid” ILSA
• 35 Concerns of the Paycheck Fairness Act WAGEGAPS
• 36 Bams, cracks or dots, in mahjong SUIT
• 38 Many a UNESCO site RUIN
• 39 Subsides LESSENS
• 41 Much of northern Arkansas OZARKS
• 42 Land animal closely related to whales HIPPO
• 43 ___ tender LEGAL
• 45 Shawarma wrap PITA
• 46 Super Monkey Ball brand SEGA
• 47 Buckets ATON
• 48 Didn’t give way HELD
• 49 Every month has one IDES
• 52 Early instruction in canine obedience school SIT
• 53 Mandy Patinkin’s role in “Evita” CHE